New Delhi: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) today said its chief operating officer (COO) and business head of Zee TV Nitin Vaidya has put in his papers, after a 10-year association with the media conglomerate, reports PTI.

After a successful stint of over a decade, Mr Vaidya has expressed his desire to explore new vistas, ZEEL said in a statement.

Zee will not be seeking an immediate replacement for Mr Vaidya's role and his direct reports will henceforth be reporting into ZEEL MD and CEO Punit Goenka, it added.

"Zee family will always remember Nitin for his adroit understanding of viewer's mind and penetrating insight into content and programming. The entire Zee family wishes Nitin all success in his new endeavours," Mr Goenka said.

Mr Vaidya's stint in Zee has seen him lead the company's foray into regional space and later all national channels.

During his tenure, the Zee Group launched channels like Zee Marathi, Zee Talkies and Zee Bangla.

"It's been over 10 glorious years with the Zee family which I shall always cherish. Zee gave me the opportunity to broaden my horizon and explore diversified functions. I am extremely thankful to the management who have always supported and backed my decisions," Nitin Vaidya said.

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New Delhi: India's highways development project, the largest public private partnership programme in the world, is likely to attract a whopping investment of $41 billion, including FDI, from private sector, reports PTI quoting highways minister Kamal Nath.

"Over the next few years, of the total projected investment size of $70 billion (Rs3.09 lakh crore), the likely investments from private sector including FDI (foreign direct investment) will be about $41 billion (Rs1.81 lakh crore)," Mr Nath told investors from Australia here.

The road ministry has unveiled an ambitious programme to construct 35,000km of roads by March 2014 and has called for foreign investment to meet the financial requirements.

The highways ministry is keen to implement mega projects, each with a length of about 500km and a total project cost of $500 million, he said.

His announcements come in the wake of India raising cap on foreign institutional investors (FIIs) investment by $5 billion in government and corporate bonds each. Besides, the government allowed FIIs to invest additional $5 billion in bonds issued by companies engaged in infrastructure sector.

The government's determination to bridge the infrastructure deficit provides an immense opportunity to international financial institutions and infrastructure companies to participate in the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), he said.

Inviting Australian investors to participate in the highways sector, at a programme at Australian High Commission, Mr Nath said, "...as two large democracies... India and Australia share a special bond. I am hopeful that this bond will make rapid inroads into the roads and highways sector in India."

Major Australian players have already evinced interest in partnering with the government for infrastructure development while leading contractor and project developer Leighton Group has already announced plans of over $300 million (Rs1,500 crore) in the road sector.

Apart from this, Mr Nath last week had also said that shifting its focus from the US and other European nations, Canada has assured India to invest $3 billion in highways projects in the next five years.

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has plans to build 20km of national highways a day to increase its network significantly and has launched the NHDP, the largest such programme on PPP mode.

Sixty per cent of the highways under PPP will be built on build, operate and transfer pattern.

The country, at present has about 70,000km of national highways which is only about two per cent of the total over 33 lakh km of road network.

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Shadi Katyal

6 years ago

It is nice to hear such news of FDI and foreign investment but in last 5 years how much has come forward.These are the type of news to fool public.
Why would all the funds wasted on shoddy construction of CWG could not have been spent on such projects.
Would anyone wish to invest in constructions after seeing the fiasco of all the construction for CWG.
Do we have trained workers to take up such projects. Just employing untrained workers will have the same results as we seen in CWG.
Time to wake up and face the reality and truth that we as a nation have failed to provide permanent and good quality infrastructure.How did our rulers did and we failed ????

The market ended in the positive zone for the second day in a row. Although the indices got an early boost from the global markets this morning, the gains could not be sustained and the jittery market ended a tad higher.

The market, which touched its intraday high soon after the opening bell on positive cues from the global front, gave up some gains by mid-morning and was trading in a narrow range. Profit booking resulted in the indices moving lower but a green opening of the influential European markets pushed the domestic barometers a bit higher albeit sideways. The market continued to trade in a tight range and closed the day with marginal gains.

The Sensex ended at 20,340, up 89.63 points (0.44%). It touched an intraday high of 20,461 and a low of 20,250. The Nifty gained 32.40 points (0.53%) to settle at 6,136. The index swung between a high-low of 6,187 and 6,106, intraday.

The overall market breadth was positive. Of the 30 Sensex stocks, 18 ended in the green while 12 ended lower. The Nifty ended with 34 advancing stocks and 16 on the declining side. The broader indices outperformed the benchmarks today; the BSE Mid-cap index gained 0.79% and the BSE Small-cap index surged 1.30%.

Giving reprieve to transporters and other users of the fuel, the government has said it was not the right time to deregulate diesel prices, as inflation continued to be high.

"I don't think it will be a wise or prudent thing to do (deregulate price of diesel) at a time when inflation is running so high," finance secretary Ashok Chawla said at a panel discussion on a TV channel.

The Asian pack ended mostly in the green, and boosted optimism about the global economic recovery. Investors also anticipate that the quarterly earnings reports from corporates will bring some cheer to the markets.

The Vedanta Group today ruled out increasing the open offer price to minority shareholders of Cairn India, saying its current offer was "lucrative."

"There is no question (of increasing the open offer price). The price is final and that is a very lucrative offer," Vedanta group chairman Anil Agarwal said. Vedanta Resources is buying 40%-51% stake from Cairn Energy Plc and its subsidiary Sesa Goa has filed papers for an open offer for an additional 20% stake.

The US markets ended in the positive zone on Friday on hopes that the Federal Reserve will provide further stimulus to boost the sagging economy, as the jobs market witnessed more-than-expected job cuts in September. According to a monthly government report, a total of 95,000 jobs were slashed last month, marking the fourth consecutive decline. Though the unemployment rate held steady at 9.6%, it has now breached 9.5% for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s. The Dow gained 57.90 points (0.53%) to 11,006. The S&P 500 index gained 7.09 points (0.61%) to 1,165. The Nasdaq gained 18.24 points (0.77%) to 2,402.

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IT major Patni Computer Systems (up 1.75%) has opened its first centre in China. The state-of-the-art facility with a planned capacity of 500 seats is located in the Suzhou Software & Technology Park (SSTP).

The ITO delivery centre will focus on delivering development and support services to cater to Japanese, US, European and local multi-national corporations.

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